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Kristen Biehl is an Assistant Professor at Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and a researcher at Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender). She holds a D.Phil in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford (2018). For the last 15 years she has been involved both academically and professionally in intensive research within the migration and asylum field in Turkey, having worked closely with a wide range of international, national and local actors and different migrant and refugee communities. Her research interests include ethnographically studying transformations of urban society and space through migration and diversification processes, examining the governing effects of migration and asylum policy frameworks, and comparing the gender awareness and approaches of civil society initiatives working in the migration and environmental fields. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals, including Ethnic and Racial Studies and Social Analysis, and numerous edited volumes.
COST provides networking opportunities for researchers and innovators in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. There are three strategic priorities: promoting and spreading excellence, fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science and empowering and retaining young researchers and innovators.
Writing Urban Places proposes an innovative investigation and implementation of a process for developing human understanding of communities, their society, and their situatedness, by narrative methods. It particularly focuses on the potential of narrative methods for urban development in European medium-sized cities.
